In one of Charlottenburg’s quiet streets, a new gallery has silently emerged:
Nina Horvitz Galerie.
And this birth is no coincidence—it opened with time itself.
On view until 9 January 2026, Vittorio Santoro: NYCHTHEMERON transforms the 24-hour cycle of a day (and a lifetime) into an experience that drifts along the shores of language and perception.
Santoro’s works lean on silence rather than sound, ritual rather than narrative, observation rather than spectacle.
Anatomy of a Day
“Nycthemeron”—a word from Ancient Greek meaning the full span of a night and a day.
For Santoro, it is not merely a unit of time; it is the periodicity of thought, the vibration of language, the rhythm of memory.
Amid the white walls of the newly opened gallery, a sense of uninterrupted continuity lingers for the viewer:
photographs, sculptures, time-based text works, and a site-specific installation…
All quietly repeating the same question:
“Is time truly passing—or are we passing through it?”
Santoro’s works do not seek to answer this question; they make its echo audible.
An unfinished sentence, a half-completed gesture, the silence of a word—all become acts.
The Politics of Time, the Poetics of Silence
Santoro’s practice unravels power relations not directly, but through the grammar of time.
Repeating a text, reiterating an action, or refusing to displace an object—these repetitions hover on the fine line between obedience and resistance.
The works invite the viewer not into a narrative, but into the slowness of awareness.
Time here is not a stopwatch; it is a duration of noticing.
Conceptual Silence and Poetic Discipline
The simplicity in Santoro’s language carries mathematical rigor.
He stands at the intersection of Wittgenstein’s “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world” and Beckett’s search for “the form of nothingness.”
The silence in his works is not withdrawal—it is a space for listening.
In this sense, NYCHTHEMERON is not merely an exhibition; it is a practice of time.
Each viewer rediscovers their own cycle there, in that white space.
Apartment No:26 Note – A New Time Begins in Berlin
For Apartment No:26, NYCHTHEMERON is the new address for slow thinking in Berlin’s conceptual art scene.
Nina Horvitz Galerie has structured its opening like a thesis:
An exhibition that weighs the burden of an era within the measure of a single day.
Santoro proposes thinking alongside time rather than measuring it—
and perhaps that’s why, upon leaving the gallery, checking your watch feels unnecessary.
📍 Vittorio Santoro – NYCHTHEMERON
🗓️ On view until 9 January 2026
📌 Nina Horvitz Galerie, Charlottenburg, Berlin
